The fish reaches maturity more quickly than its natural cohorts but the genetic change confers no detectable difference in its appearance, ultimate size, taste or nutritional value.

FORBES: Good Riddance To Obama's Regulatory Czar

In terms of size and appearance, the SmartWatch does look like a fashionable watch you would see in day-to-day life.

FORBES: It's Fashionable For Geeks, But Sony's Android SmartWatch Is Not Ready For Prime Time

The Cato Institute prints a handsome Constitution, the size and appearance of a passport, available for four dollars and ninety-five cents.

NEWYORKER: The Commandments

In the US, HTC talks to carriers to find out what technologies (such as chipsets, displays and radios) they want to enable, as well as learning what size, appearance, feeling and functions their customers are asking for.

ENGADGET: HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product

"Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance, " the study said.

CNN: World wastes half its food, study finds

"Due to their small size, toylike appearance and their abundance of character, microcars tended not to be scrapped so much as put away, " writes Peter Svilans, the museum's former curator, in the catalog essay.

WSJ: Dan Neil on an Auction of Microcars Owned by Bruce Weiner

But he joked about his size during a February appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman, " pulling out a doughnut and saying his girth was "fair game" for comedians, who had made fun of his size for years.

NPR: NJ Governor Had Secret Weight Loss Surgery

To preserve the iPad's aspect ratio at a relatively large screen size meant Apple had to trim the side bezels, making the appearance a bit more iPhone-like than iPad-like and, at best, a snug fit for smaller hands.

ENGADGET: Switched On: Tablets and tradeoffs

But their large particle size makes them heavier in application, resulting in a whitish, chalky appearance that consumers find unappealing.

WSJ: European Sunscreen Roadblock on U.S. Beaches